Ferdinand Bruno, the phonograph and the “patois”

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  • Ferdinand Brunot, le phonographe et les ≪patois≫
  • ＜翻訳＞フェルディナン・ブリュノ : フォノグラフと「方言」（パトワ)
  • フェルディナン　ブリュノ　 フォノグラフ　ト　パトワ
  • ホンヤク フェルディナン ・ ブリュノ : フォノグラフ ト 「 ホウゲン(パトワ)」

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Abstract

When Ferdinand Brunot created the « Archives de la parole » at the University of Paris-La Sorbonne, he set up the first institutional collection of sound recordings in France. The phonographic collection of French dialects was at the centre of the « Archives de la parole » system. The innovative element was to achieve a phonographic, linguistic atlas of these dialects and patois « in the field », in systematizing the use of the phonograph instead of the written transcription. Yet the project was not free from ambiguities and contradictions. The innovative or even visionary use of the phonograph was actually instrumentalized by an archaistic view of dialects and of those who spoke to them. They were thought as the persistent and fossilized mark of a bygone past, rich of lessons for the history of the ... French language. We will take as a case study the phonographic mission in the Ardennes between June and July 1912. The 166 sounds recordings this mission left illustrate this paradox.

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